Pete Richardson

Who is Pete Richardson?

Pete Richardson is a former American football defensive back in the National Football League and former college head coach.

Richardson played college football at University of Dayton, and was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the sixth round of the 1968 NFL Draft. He played for the Bills for three years until a knee injury ended his playing career.

Richardson embarked into a steadfast 30 plus year coaching career in the late 1970s, starting out in the high school football ranks in Dayton, Ohio, before moving up to Division II football in 1979 as he joined the coaching staff at Winston-Salem State University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 1988 Richardson became the head coach of the Winston-Salem State University Rams. He served from 1988 to 1992, where he compiled a win-loss record of 41-14-1, winning three Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association conference championships and led the Rams to two appearances in the Division II football playoffs in 1990 and 1991.

He left the Winston-Salem State Rams football program in good shape, and pursued a higher challenge he became head football coach on the Division 1-AA level at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1993. During his tenure the Jaguar football team won five Southwestern Athletic Conference titles, including back-to-back-to-back crowns in 1997, 1998, 1999, and the 2003, as well four Black college football national championships. His teams also made six appearances in the now defunct Heritage Bowl, a post-season HBCU Bowl game. Richardson compiled a win-loss record of 134-62-0 in 17 seasons as Head Coach, making him the second winningest coach in the history of the Southern Jaguars football program behind the legendary coach Arnett Mumford. He is the only coach in the history of the Southern University football program to have the unique distinction go undefeated against the late legendary College Football Hall Of Fame coach Eddie Robinson of Grambling State University Tigers in the Bayou Classic.